Spiritual Notes

Information about Today Liturgical Day:____________ Day of Week:____________ Time of Day:____________ Date:____________ Place:_____________ Today’s Devotions Devotional Passage read:_____________ Notes about the passage:

Today’s Bible Reading Bible Reading:_____________ What Is the Context of the Passage?

What is the immediate context of this passage?

What is the context of the passage that precedes this passage?

What is the context of the passage that follows this passage?

What is the remote context of this passage?

What is the main theme of the chapter that this passage is from?

What is the main theme of the book that this passage is from?

What do the other books of the Bible say about the theme of this passage?

Whatis the outline of this book?

Whetis the outline of this chapter?

What is the outline of this passage?

What other passages parallel this passage?

What is the Background of this passage?

What are the internal sources of this passage?

What do the other books say about this passage?

How has the meaning of this passage changed, since you previously read it?

What are the external sources of this passage?

What do the various commentaries say about this passage?

What do the words mean, in their original language?

Understand the words of this passage What is the literary style of this passage?

What is the predominant literary style of this chapter?

What is the predominant literary style of this book? In what manner is this an apocalyptic passage? In what manner is this a discourse? In what manner is this passage parabolic literature? In what manner is this passage poetry? In what manner is this passage a prose narrative?

What is the context of this passage? Does the same word used in this passage mean the same thing?

Study specific words in the passage.

Get all of the meanings of the word.

Look at the root of the word..

Look at other words with the same root.

Look at other words with the same gematria value.

Look at the words are used in other passages.

What figures of speech are used? Was this passage written in the same language as the rest of the book?

Make observations about the action of the passage. Who is being discussed Who was present when this passage was written? Who was around when the passage was written? Who wrote the passage? Who is involved in this passage Whatis the passage about?

What else is the passage about? When was the passage written?

What time of day does this passage describe?

What date does it describe?

What season does it describe?

How else does it describe when it occurred? When do the events in the passage take place? At what stage of life do the events in the passage take place?

Whattime, in physical terms, do the events take place? Where do the events in the passage take place? Where else do the events in the passage take place? Where was the author, when the passage was written? For what reason was this passage written?

How was this passage written?

Make observations about the thoughts of the passage.

What is the literary form of the passage? In what manner is it a dialog? In what manner is it a monologue? In what manner is it prose? In what manner is it poetry?

What are the words and phrases of this passage?

What are the connections between the words and phrases?

What are the key phrases of this passage?

What are the key words of this passage?

What are the recurring phrases of this passage?

What are the recurring words of this passage?

What are the unfamiliar words of this passage?

What are the expressions of this passage?

What the idiomatic expression?

What are the figures of speech?

What is the grammar of this passage?

What commands are in this passage?

What conjunctions are in this passage?

What gerunds are in this passage?

What Nouns are in this passage?

What pronouns are in this passage?

What questions are in this passage?

What verbs are in this passage?

What is the structure of the paragraphs?

How do the paragraphs related to others in this passage?

How do the paragraphs relate to others in the same chapter?

How do the paragraphs relate to others in the same book?

How do the paragraphs relate to others in the same testament?

What is the composition of this passage?

What cause and effect is related?

What comparisons are made?

What contrasts are made?

What digressions are made?

What progressions are made?

What questions and answers are made?

What repetitions are made?

What is the predominant literary style of the passage?

How are anagrams used in the passage?

What is the atmosphere of the passage?

What figures of speech are used within the passage?

What idiomatic expressions are used within the passage?

What illustrations are used?

What is the mood of the passage?

What is the mood of individual words?

What palindromes re used?

What puns are used?

What material is quoted?

What material is quoted elsewhere?

What is the tense of the passage?

What is the tense of the word?

Synopsis of the passage What is the literal meaning of this passage?

What is the figurative meaning of this passage?

What isthe relevancy of this passage?

What is the universal practice, of this passage?

What is the local practice, of this passage?

What principles are explicitly stated?

What principles are implicitly stated?

How do those principles apply to me?

How do I apply those principles in my life?

What other changes do I need to make to my life? Have I maintained the changes I previously thought I had made?

Learning from this passage What are your reflections about this passage?

What does this passage men to you?

How does this passage reflect an aspect of your life?

How does this passage reflect another aspect of your life?

What will you apply this passage to your life?

Making up more questions about this passage Application: What is the personal application of this passage?

Cultural: Background Information.

Definitive: What does it mean?

Historical: Background information.

Implictional: Pertaining to things implied.

Information: Observe significant facts?

Interpretation: The meaning of the author.

Rational: Pertaining to reason.

Speculative: What else could be meant.

Structural: Pertaining to relationship Theological: Pertaining to doctrine.

What is the personal challenge in the passage?

What is the relevancy of this passage?

What is the universal practice, within this passage?

What is the local practice, within this passage?

How do you change your life to accord with the principles of this passage?

Questions about the Passage. (1) Who wrote the passage?

What was happening to the author, when he wrote it?

What was happening in his community, when he wrote it?

What was happening in Israel?

What was happening in the rest of the world? Who was the passage written for? Who else was the passage written for?

Describe the person the passage is addressed to? Where was this passage written? When was this passage written? For what reason was this passage written?

How come this passage was written?

What problems does this passage describe?

What other issues does this passage describe?

What solutions does this passage provide?

What is the central meaning of this passage?

How has that central meaning changed over the course of time?

What else does this passage say?

What is the main theme of this passage What is the key verse of this passage?

Questions about the Passage. (2) What is the main theme of the passage? Who are the people in this passage?

What does this passage say about God?

What is the main verse of this passage?

What are the promises of this passage?

What are the commands of this passage?

What errors does this passage discuss?

What is the example here?

What, in this passage, do I need to apply to my life, today?

Summarize this passage.

What is the key verse of this passage?

Questions about Hymns. Who is the hymn written for?

What are the blessings of the hymn?

What re the conditions for receiving those blessings?

What promises are in the hymn?

What commands are in the hymn?

What reflects God in the hymn?

What is the essence of the hymn?

What is the central thought of the hymn?

What does this hymn teach?

What does this hymn say about being blessed?

What does this hymn say about being happy?

Questions about the sayings.

What is presented as wisdom?

What is being condemned?

What is being praised?

What is viewed as positive?

What is viewed as negative?

What are the principles of the saying?

What other passages express the same sentiments?

What do you do, that the saying condemns?

What, in the saying, do you need to incorporate into your life?

Questions about the story.

What circumstances led to telling this story?

Summarize thisstory.

What do parallel passages say about this story? Does the narrator interpret the story? Does anybody else interpret the story?

How do you understand the story?

What is the central truth of the story?

How do you apply this story to your life?

Still more questions about today’s reading Who wrote this passage?

What were the circumstances of the author when they wrote it? Who was the passage written to?

Describe the recipients of this passage? Where was this passage written? When was this passage written?

What is the context of this passage? For what reason was this passage written?

What problems does this passage address?

What solutions does this passage provide?

What was the central meaning of this passage when it was written?

What is the central meaning of this passage today?

What is the theme of this passage?

What is the key verse of this passage?

What are the commands of this passage?

What are the blessings of this passage?

What are the errors that I should avoid?

What is the example in this passage?

How do I apply this passage to my life?

What do you do, that this passage condemns?

What in this passage, do you need to incorporate into your life?

More notes about today’s reading.